14 DAY TRIAL // Western Digital, a leading vendor of hard disk drives, has just introduced the world's first 2TB hard drive, in the form of a new environmentally-friendly WD Caviar Green hard drive. Designed as a 3.5-inch product, the world's highest-capacity hard drive takes advantage of the company's industry-leading 500GB/platter technology, offering 400GB/in2 areal density. Along with the announcement Western Digital said that the drive was already available for purchase, enabling both consumer and professional users to upgrade to the highest-capacity single-unit storage solution on the market.
“Saving power without sacrificing storage capacity is what consumers want, and what many businesses are requiring today. With the launch of the new WD Caviar Green 2 TB hard drive, customers receive the additional capacities needed to operate today's highly advanced programs and high-resolution digital files while using less power than typical drives with similar performance and capacities,” said Jim Morris, WD senior vice president and general manager of client systems.
Enabling Western Digital to be the first to announce a 2TB hard disk drive, the new Caviar Green hard drive is at its third generation, continuing one of the company's most successful product lines in recent history. It has been designed to provide a massive storage capacity, a SATA 3 GB/s interface with NCQ, 32MB of cache memory and a variable spindle speed. As with the company's other high-capacity hard drive, which boasts 1.5TB of storage space, the new 2TB Caviar Green offers support for WD's StableTrac, IntelliPower, IntelliSeek and NoTouch.
“While some in the industry wondered if the end consumer would buy a 1 TB drive, already some 10 percent of 3.5-inch hard drive sales are at the 1 TB level or higher, serving demand from video applications and expanding consumer media libraries,” said Mark Geenen, president of Trend Focus. “The 2 TB hard drives will continue to satisfy end user's insatiable desire to store more data on ever larger hard drives.”
The guys over at hothardware have also provided some early benchmark results of a pre-release engineering sample, which was good enough to offer an average read speed of 90MB/s and average write speed of 80MB/s, according to HD Tach. Be sure that a full benchmark will be performed in the upcoming days, thus providing all the ins and outs of Western Digital's new flagship hard drive model.
